Recommendations for carriers
Recommendations to Carriers, loads to ship, help in searching for freight to transport companies
How to avoid non-payment for completed shipments? Where to find regular loads.
Transport companies, private carriers independently providing services in international freight market quite often run the risk not to receive payment for performed cargo delivery, in other words – to be “cheated” by unscrupulous customers.
Why is there such a sad trend? There are several reasons:
1) Work by word of mouth, without a contract.
2) cashless work with deferred payment.
3) gullibility of carriers who wish to receive cash payment from the customer as soon as possible after discharging the cargo
4) ignorance and illiteracy of drivers who may be easily tricked into loading, transloading or unloading cargo, or may be used to frame the cargo for damage or theft and refuse to pay money for transportation
5) Carriers working alone, and unwillingness to cooperate with freight forwarding companies who act as intermediaries between cargo owners and carriers, and guarantee reliable and stable payment for carriage.
To quickly find your freight
How can you avoid a negative event scenario? Here are some of the recommendations carriers how to reduce the risks of non-payment for transport services provided:
1) When accepting a freight order from a freight owner, especially one who is unfamiliar and not recommended by any of his colleagues, you should enter into a freight contract, and recommendations nevertheless don’t hurt.
2) Avoid working with cash, no matter how lucrative it may seem. At first glance, paying in cash looks preferable to the carrier. In fact the carrier, having received an advance payment of 10-15% of the full amount and having unloaded the cargo at destination, runs the risk of being left with no money as a dishonest customer cannot easily cheat him: the cargo is delivered and what claims can the carrier assert if they initially agreed to an unofficial transaction? As a result, the carrier is left with a small advance payment which does not even cover the transportation costs, not to mention any profit.
.Working with cash is only possible with 100% prepayment for shipping, or upon arrival at the delivery terminal, receive the full amount before unloading the shipment.
3) Upon arrival at the loading location, the driver must carefully follow all proper procedures for receiving the cargo from the shipper. The documents to be held on hand before commencing carriage are: the CMR waybill (one copy remains with the consignor and the other with his signature is given to the driver), the TIR-carnet, the commercial invoice, the packing list and all freight certifications, all provided by the consignor. Not having this documentation with you can cause problems in the process of transportation that will result in delays, disruption of delivery times and non-payment for the shipment.
.4) The driver must always check the condition of the consignment before commencing carriage. The number of packages (in the case of pieces) must correspond to the number of packages of the goods indicated on the CMR consignment note. Particular attention should be paid to the condition of the goods, if they are containerized – check the seal and the condition of the container. All remarks and defects of the cargo or container found during inspection shall be noted in the CMR Consignment Note and countersigned by the consignor. These measures are obligatory in order not to be inconvenienced when the cargo is unloaded at destination – the consignee or the owner himself may claim that the cargo is spoiled or missing and refuse to pay for the carriage.
.5) Cargo is not unloaded at the place of arrival until the consignee provides a power of attorney from the cargo owner and a passport. The consignment shall be delivered only to the address stated on the consignment note or in the transport instructions. It is forbidden to agree to unload the cargo to another address or to transfer it to another means of transport.